Weak Snow on Carson Pass

Revisted the general location of my pit from 12.3.20 at Carson Pass. I found about 10 cms (4 inches) of new snow on top of 65 inches of mostly weak facets. In my near tree line pit location I did not encounter much of a slab but higher along the ridge I did. I saw several small recently triggered wind slabs along the ridgeline and was able to kick off more wind slab with ski kicks. Although the interface between this wind slab and the old snow was weak facets in several locations I did not encounter any step down activity, which was honestly a bit of a surprise considering how weak the facets were. I was starting to lose light when I was along the ridge or I would have liked to investigate these areas of wind slab and facets more. 

Photo 1: About 10 cms (~4 inches) of new snow on top of weak facets. I rated this layer as Fist hard at the top to 4 Finger hard at the bottom. Presumably the density change reflected the warmer temps at the onset of the storm. 

Photo 2: Best attempt at capturing weak facets. Someday I will take a good photo of facets. These are impressively weak in the hand and it would be nice to capture that in the photo.

Photo 3: Skier trigger small wind slab. I encountered this recent skier triggered slab along the ridge and investigated. The interface between the new snow and old was very weak facets. This is a small terrain feature but it does represent was could potentially occur in larger terrain. 

Photo 4: Ski kicks on convex rolls produced small wind slabs.

Photo 5: Looking up from debris at ski kick triggered wind slab. Ski pole for size reference.